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Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Continuing our journey through the Dinosaur and Other Prehistoric Animal Fact Finder written by Dr. Michael Benton and published by Kingfisher books in 1992. The color illustrations are by Jim Channell and David Holmes, and line illustrations are by Kevin Maddison and Ralph Orme.

We're confronted by a pack of extremely 80's-looking Deinonychosaurs. These guys are not nearly as fascinating as the accompanying Deinonychosaur family tree graphic, which is a relic from the days when you could be suspected of being part of this family if you happened to have large claws. Behold!

You're looking good there, Gastornis.

Moving away from dinosaurs for a moment, we have this Dimetrodon, who looks positively cuddly. Like an ugly-cute puppy.

Here's Gallimimus sporting a very odd-looking beak...

And Hadrosaurus sporting seemingly no beak at all. She's anatomically off anyway, but that head...

Honestly, Ornithopods, like this parroty Hypsilophodon, make out pretty bad overall in this book. Brace yourselves for this next one:

1 comment:

To echo Marc's comment from the last post, a lot of these were in the british 'Dinosaurs!' partwork. They looked wonky even back in the early-mid '90's, and even to a preteen. There's something about the rendering on that albertosaur that isnt so bad, though.